Avi Arad, de producer en de CEO van Marvel is opgezet met de keuze: “We are incredibly excited about Matthew. We love his sensibilities. I thought Layer Cake was incredibly stylish, with a lot of characters. In some ways he had stylistically the look of X-Men, it was very crisp. It’s no less a leap than it was for Bryan Singer. With movies of this size, it’s hard to wing it. He’s very confident, that’s what I like about him. – Yeah, I can do that!”

En de commentaren lopen nog verder: “Obviously we have Wolverine, and Magneto, Professor X, Storm, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Rogue, all these characters, but then you need to freshen up the story and make it new. It should never be this one story. The main characters are more important than Jean Grey,…This is a bigger story. Everybody’s expecting Dark Phoenix, but Dark Phoenix would never be the main show. She’ll be one of the characters, that’s it. There are a lot of stories to tell”